Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
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Step 1
Note any crushing pain, pressure or squeezing in the center of your chest that lasts for more than a few minutes.
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Step 2
Be alert to pain that spreads to the jaw, neck, shoulder or arms (often the left arm).
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Step 3
Note any nausea, sweating, dizziness, or shortness of breath in combination with chest pain.
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Step 4
Look for any combination of the symptoms listed above.
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Step 5
Keep track of one or more of the above warning signs subsiding, and then returning.
Comments
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brate said
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marsbar007 said
on 5/21/2009 I had a severe pain in the ass, but it turned out not to be a heart attack after all; I divorced my wife and the pain disappeared!
Anonymous said
on 9/9/2006 in the area of right under your sternum, almost at your diaphragm, dullness and weight increasing with left arm weakness, still functional but weak, a rasping gasping intake trying to breathe, nausea and sweating afterward,
and tired!
Anonymous said
on 7/17/2006 I experienced a severe and sudden crushing pain in the chest region and it lead to my left hand. I was sweating heavily and felt like throwing up. The pain lasted for 5 minutes, then went away and then returned again. The pain is crushing and subsides for a few minutes, and then returns.